Why more and more children becoming multilingual

Here are two lovely multilingual children



 

 

 

    Recently, I found these videos on YouTube. While enjoying watching the two lovely multilingual kids' talk show, I started to think about the question: "why more kids are multilingual nowadays?"

    It seems that one of the main reasons is the growing globalization. As people live all around the globe regardless of race, religion or sex. As a result, there are more transnational marriage happening, and more children are brought up under a bilingual or even a multilingual environment which foster their language ability. Also, being multilingual make us more competitive. As the world is becoming multilingual, our society needs translators to bridge cultures and nations.  Thus, we get more job opportunities if we are bilingual. Another important point is that our language ability is one of the benchmarks of our social status. Speaking more languages shows that we are knowledgeable and well- educated. Considering the above factors, educational institutions and many parents urge their children to learn different languages.